Great, useful app
My kids and I love this app. It’s great for so much.
Good app (minus glitches)
update 2+ years on. Still loving this app in spite of the fact that it requires me to sign in every couple of months.
So I had some glitches, but I really appreciate the Library and functions when it is working.
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Update; 11 months on, still getting great use of this app.
Voices are nice & speed control is a great feature
The account upgrade issue I had previously hasn’t happened again, although I do sometimes get logged out.
One reason for only giving 4 stars is you can no longer toggle to the place in your document you want to listen to.
You can rewind but that’s slow. It was better before.
Hope you bring it back
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Original post around Aug 2024
This app isn’t cheap, but it is user friendly & has a good range of voices, so it’s easy to get one’s moneys worth.
However, I have been logged out on about 5 occasions, & about 6 months into purchasing a top end yearly subscription, my settings unexpectedly changed & I could only listen to 5 minutes a day.
After 5 minutes, I was prompted to upgrade even though I’d already paid for a yearly subscription at the top tier.
I contacted Natural reader to see if this was a mistake & they gave me instructions to fix it, which worked. Although they said I’d need the confirmation email I got 6 months ago. Turns out I didn’t but it was a bit stressful thinking I might be shut out if I didn’t find a 6 month old email I assumed I would t need.
An acknowledgment of issues at their end & an apology would have been nice, but at least they resolved it promptly.
So I had some glitches, but I really appreciate the Library and functions when it is working.
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Update; 11 months on, still getting great use of this app.
Voices are nice & speed control is a great feature
The account upgrade issue I had previously hasn’t happened again, although I do sometimes get logged out.
One reason for only giving 4 stars is you can no longer toggle to the place in your document you want to listen to.
You can rewind but that’s slow. It was better before.
Hope you bring it back
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Original post around Aug 2024
This app isn’t cheap, but it is user friendly & has a good range of voices, so it’s easy to get one’s moneys worth.
However, I have been logged out on about 5 occasions, & about 6 months into purchasing a top end yearly subscription, my settings unexpectedly changed & I could only listen to 5 minutes a day.
After 5 minutes, I was prompted to upgrade even though I’d already paid for a yearly subscription at the top tier.
I contacted Natural reader to see if this was a mistake & they gave me instructions to fix it, which worked. Although they said I’d need the confirmation email I got 6 months ago. Turns out I didn’t but it was a bit stressful thinking I might be shut out if I didn’t find a 6 month old email I assumed I would t need.
An acknowledgment of issues at their end & an apology would have been nice, but at least they resolved it promptly.
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Awesome
Only 4 stars because the voices only work for so long. The completely free voices are good tho
Good for reading, terrible for studying, interface is getting worse over time
If you want a very good text to speech reader, this is excellent. My big suggestion on how they could improve the reading experience would be to add a driving mode with larger buttons. It’s not safe using this to audiobook while driving because the buttons are so tiny. If you want to highlight or copy text for the purpose of studying, this app will be a BIG disappointment! The highlighting functionality is terrible. The copying and pasting functionality is terrible. Really strangely, it now takes a number of steps just to find the option to save a webpage at Notion for reading later in the app. What?! Shouldn’t that be a core feature of an app with a reading library? Overall, the app’s interface needs a major redesign. It’s grown terribly cluttered and unintuitive. I only still use it because I haven’t (yet) found a better alternative for turning PDFs into narrated “audiobooks”
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Регистрация
А проще регистрацию нельзя было сделать, пока регаешься пол дня пройдет
A Let Down
First 5 minutes were great. Then the pro voice runs out and you get the “majed” voice which cannot pronounce English well enough to understand. Horrible for those wanting free text to speech
Great App
Does exactly what you want and how you want. The free voices suck but the subscription voices are good. Even allowed me to record my own voice and have me read to myself lol. Great!
Free and works!
I have a lot of reading assignments and I am a slow reader. This app is free and I can import any pdf or photos of books I need to read for assignments. Would recommend and my college career is much easier with NaturalReader.
This is the best text to speech there is
The fact that you have human voices. To read your info that do not sound like robots. I love it. Also they can use your own voice to read out loud. I love it.
Great concept
But way to expensive
Great study tool
I am a horrible reader when it's not for personal reasons, getting through anything that isn't my interest is a major problem for me. This app helps me get through not just chapters of information but also help me keep attention. I enjoy that I can highlight and take notes as it reads for me as well as being able to change the speeds in increments that I like (all of this while only using the free version).
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Used to work better
Idk what happened with this app the past few months, but it will continuously stop reading text every sentence. I reinstalled it and that didn’t fix the issue. It’s not a network problem. I’m on iOS so not sure if that’s become an issue for the app.
非常喜欢！
蛮喜欢下载有趣的内容然后在开车的时候听。也可以用来学汉语。
Did not care for it, found something better
This app is way to expensive and you can’t do anything for any considerable amount of time before you hit a paywall. The “elite” voices are fine of course but they are NOT worth the money. I would have used the less advanced voice but it quite literally sounds like gen 1 Siri. Not something that can speed up the study of historical texts.
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Sadly it’s the best out there
It malfunctions A LOT; skips around the page, gets stuck reading the same paragraph on loop, switches to a random language intermittently to read a number, can’t handle any type of text that isn’t perfect blocks on the page, and many other issues. The tone of voice isn’t always on point but it’s certainly better than the robotic Word voice, the Apple reader voice, or other apps like Speechify. It’s sad that it’s almost 2027 and this is the best we have. I’m not thrilled to be paying $120/yr for a product that sometimes costs me more time and energy than it saves but here we are.
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Actually HAS ALL the best features
I have tried many other reader apps and I get so frustrated with their seemingly arbitrary limitations. This is THE BEST reader. I have never found anything negative. This works in multiple speeds, screen sizes, split screen, file types, highlighting, captioning. The captions are my absolute favorite. I must have I didn’t know I needed and now I can’t live without. This is the best. Essential for college and ADHD.
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Not the best
I’m not satisfied. When I play the voice to read along it skips over few words or doesn’t read the complete text. I noticed because I scan my text book for it to read, it doesn’t read it completely since the page curves while the book is open due to the book being kinda big. Overall it sucks because I need it to process all the words correctly for me to be able to read along. Also there is wayyy too many mispronunciations.
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Very slow and clunky, overpriced
Very disappointed with this purchase. I have to reboot the app multiple times for every listening session. The AI mispronounces words and sometimes adds a random accent. I genuinely feel like a better app could be vibe coded in 3 days.
Misleading
I would give this 0 stars if I could. They bait you with a “natural voice” that you choose at the start, give you 5 minutes (if that) of listening time with the natural voice, then force you to either pay ($20 a month!!!) to continue with the “premium” voices OR go with the free voice. I thought “huh, surely the free voice can’t be that bad?” It is that bad. It is so comically bad that I could have Siri read me something and it would sound (1) less robotic and (2) more natural. It is intentionally bad to get you to subscribe. Not only is it robotic, they have to give him an indecipherable accent - at first I thought it was maybe Irish? It was like listening to a robot with a language barrier try to recite Shakespeare. Don’t waste your time unless you want to drop $120+ a year.
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